Strategy & Policy

05

Mar

ceasefire, India, Line of Control, LoC, Pakistan

The punching bag called LoC

BY: Durdana Najam PEJOURNAL - India and Pakistan have resolved to honour the 2003 Line of Control (LoC) ceasefire agreement. It has brought to an end almost six years of uninterrupted skirmishes along the border. In between was a major strike. Both the countries entered into each other’s airspace to avenge attacks on their respective soils. India was the first to take the leap. It targeted “terrorists” hiding in Balakot. Pakistan could not take this lying down and threw payloads on Indian territory as well. In the meantime, the captured Indian pilot was released to endorse Pakistan’s intention to have…

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04

Mar

Academi, Al Bukamal, Blackwater, Canada, CENTCOM, Erbil, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iraq, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO, NATO mission Iraq, United Kingdom, United States

What does NATO want in Iraq?

BY: Valeria Rodriguez PEJOURNAL - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) plans to increase the number of its forces in Iraq with the intention of expanding the organization's training activities in the area as soon as the Covid19 epidemic subsides. Since World War II, the United States had a leading role within the organization, made up of 30 states, being the one that contributes the most to the budget with 22.1 percent, followed by Germany with 14.70 percent, France with 10, 60 percent and the United Kingdom with 9.8 percent. During the Trump administration, the relationship with NATO was somewhat…

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28

Feb

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New missions by Washington allies to delay withdrawal from Iraq

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - Recent developments in Iraq point to a complex scenario in which Joe Biden, as the former director of the new Middle East project in the Barack Obama administration, is working on a project to "divide West and Southwest Asia" to survive in the region. The scenario comes as the United States is required by the Iraqi parliament to withdraw its terrorist forces following the assassination of resistance commanders by Donald Trump. The work plan presented by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the outset. However, it shows that the Pentagon is not serious about…

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28

Feb

Biden, bombing, Diplomacy, Iran, Pentagon, Syria

Biden’s reckless Syria bombing is not the diplomacy he promised

BY: Medea Benjamin* and Nicolas J. S. Davies* PEJOURNAL - The February 25 U.S. bombing of Syria immediately puts the policies of the newly-formed Biden administration into sharp relief. Why is this administration bombing the sovereign nation of Syria? Why is it bombing "Iranian-backed militias" who pose absolutely no threat to the United States and are actually involved in fighting ISIS? If this is about getting more leverage vis-à-vis Iran, why hasn’t the Biden administration just done what it said it would do: rejoin the Iran nuclear deal and de-escalate the Middle East conflicts? According to the Pentagon, the US…

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17

Feb

Abraham Accord, Association of Persian Gulf Jewish Communities, Persian Gulf, The UAE, Zionists

The UAE and smoothing the path for the Zionists in Persian Gulf

Today, some regional media outlets announced the launch of an organization called the "Association of Persian Gulf Jewish Communities" (AGJC) with the participation of six Arab countries led by Rabbi "Elie Abadie" and headed by "Ebrahim Dawood Nonoo". As reported in this news; The association claims to bring together the Jewish communities of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar to provide the necessary infrastructure to serve the Jewish community in the region. This suspicious act, which was carried out after the revelation of the UAE-Bahrain relations with the Zionist regime and specifically with the green light of…

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17

Feb

Ansarullah, Resistance Front, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Yemen's Houthi movement

The Yemeni resistance and the defeat of Saudi ignorant policies

PEJOURNAL - Saudi Arabia's regional policy has been one of the main reasons for the escalation of tensions in West and Southwest Asia for at least the past decade. These policies, which intensified after the death of King Abdullah, with King Salman ascending the throne in January 2015 and aligning with the Emirati Mohammed bin Zayed, although they continue to this day, do not meet any of the pre-determined goals. The main goal of these policies, which from the beginning was based on the three pillars of "primitiveness", "ignorance" and "oil dollars", was to achieve the US gendarmerie position in…

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12

Feb

2021, disintegrated world, flawed solution, Nazism, President Biden, Trumpism, U.S. administration, U.S. national economy, White House

The 2021 U.S. administration; a flawed solution for a disintegrated world

BY: Mohammad Ghaderi PEJOURNAL - U.S. has its hard times ahead. Trump or Trumpism is not a person, it’s a thought or an idea. Thinking that allowed the White House to increase government activity and interference in the areas of political, economic and social issues which troubles particularly the white class and the capitalist community. A thought that sought to increase economic freedoms and capitalism and did not accept the idea of “equality of humans” alongside with the idea of “freedom for all humans.” If the coronavirus had not fallen in the lives of the White House, that is affecting…

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12

Feb

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The entry of political intelligence into American foreign policy

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The Biden administration, unlike former US presidents, who also took over the leadership and hegemony of the United States at the inauguration, is taking over America from Trump that its world power has waned through a weakened foreign policy, its Covid effected economy is struggling to stand on its own two feet and democracy has stopped there. What we are witnessing in the United States these days is a political disgrace and a fundamental weakness in the foundation and structure of American democracy, which in the 2020 election confiscated 160 million American votes in the…

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06

Feb

China, Dollar, Donald Trump, East Asia, Global Economy, Joe Biden, monetary, trade war, WTO

Weakened dollar, Stronger Administration

BY: Jacobien van der Kleij and Michael Robbins PEJOURNAL - One of the major events that characterized the early Trump presidency was the U.S. trade war with China. From a monetary perspective, the trade war with China was not beneficial to the U.S. dollar, and hitting China with such tariffs showed the U.S. that other countries can, and will, step in when needed.The actual “war” aspect is an editorialization, but the events were still meant to show the world that when two superpowers compete for better trade deals, there is never a clear winner. The rhetoric started on Trump’s campaign…

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05

Feb

evolution, Iran, Islamic revolution, Resistance Front

The evolution of resistance after the Islamic revolution of Iran

BY: Seyed Reza Sadr Al-Hosseini PEJOURNAL - The seed of the Islamic Revolution was planted in the teachings of the school of Islam, Shia beliefs and the movement of Holly Imam Hussein (PBUH), and this sapling grew by relying on the religious teachings and pure Islam of Muhammad and became a big tree. Islamic Resistance and Islamic revolution; The twin born of the Quran In fact, the resistance and the Islamic Revolution were born of a Quranic turning point, and if there was no resistance, Islam would not have made any progress after the resurrection of the Holy Prophet (PBUH).…

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